Server Access Problem

Daniel Challen daniel.challen at ocsl.co.uk
Fri Oct 20 16:22:03 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 16:40 +0100, Dan Track wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've got an interesting problem. Basically I've installed a server (to
> be honest its rhel 2.1), and I neglected to install any network tools.
> I currently don't have physical access to it. I only have kvm access
> to the console. Since I can't find any familiar network tools e.g
> wget, ftp, ssh .telnet I'm at a loss as to how to download the
> packages on to the server. Just to add the server does have network
> connectivty.
I'm surprised there's no ssh server (openssh-server is the package name
iirc), I thought that was installed by default.

> Does anybody have any smart ideas?
It certainly should have rpm and up2date.

up2date -i wget openssh-server <whatever else you want>

- Daniel Challen.

P.S. You may have better luck asking on the RHEL mailing lists.




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